POLS 3160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dixie Chicks, Feminist School Of Criminology, Left Realism
27 Nov 2015
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Relative deprivation - a desire for something that others have that the thief does not. Lack of access - to the political sphere. Poor policing - police responses that anger/provoke local populations and cause further breakdown in communities. Drug use as a health care issues, not a criminal justice issue. Focus on gender for understanding female and male offending. Gendered treatment of offenders and workers in criminal justice system. 2 more common areas of focus for feminist criminology is gendered pathways and intersectionality. Increase legal recognition of crimes against women and enforce. Crimes against women a result of social oppression and economic dependency so greater economic, social, political equality. Over 50% of canadian women will experience violence. In most cases, women know their abuser. 93% of reported adult sexual assault victims are females. Ucr definition: violence incidents involve offences that deal with the application, or threat of application of force to a person.
